Fig. 2.3 The theory of allergy manifestation (according to Roitt et al. 1987).
The decrease in IgE antibodies concurrent with an increase in immunoglobulins of type IgG (Djurup and Osterballe 1984), often apparent with this therapy, bear little correlation to the clinical symptoms. Its significance has yet to be explained.
The efficacy of hyposensitization immunotherapy has been unequivocally proven solely in the case of bee and wasp allergies. This is very risky for the patient and currently is generally only recommended as in-patient treatment in specialized departments with specialized equipment, staff, and experience.
Decreasing patients' sensitivity has been somewhat successful with pollinosis. Generally, however, therapy extends over a very long period. There is always the risk of a fatal anaphylactic reaction.
Oral treatment with liquid allergen extracts is less risky. Even though it has been proven to be utterly ineffective (Urbanek et al. 1983, Wahn et al. 1987), it is still widely practiced, particularly in pediatrics, due to a lack of effective alternatives.
Food allergies, one of the most important groups within allergies, cannot be treated by hyposensitization. To date there has been no documented success story.
Industry undoubtedly plays a big role in overestimating treatment via hyposensitization, painting an exaggeratedly positive picture of hyposensitization treatment.
Commerce with regards to allergen extracts amounts to billions of dollars worldwide. It is not surprising that representatives of allergen-producing pharmaceutical companies regularly appear in the physician's office optimistically touting their company's products as effective therapy treatments. At the same time they may occasionally forget to mention less optimistic reports found in technical literature.
Chemical drug therapy is often aggressively propagated due to similar interests. Chemical substances administered in response to IgE-causing allergies of Type 1, without exception, only prevent the onset of symptoms or suppress them (Coombs and Gell 1963). This fact is readily overlooked or not mentioned. Chemical drug therapy is unable to alter the actual mechanism of an allergy. This applies to various antihistamines (H1 receptor antagonists) as well as mast cell stabilizers (DNCG, NAA-glutamic acid) and corticosteroids, the most potent and problematic of all allergy pharmaceuticals.
It becomes apparent that to date, clinical allergology possesses only two therapy modalities that address the cause: the avoidance of allergens and hyposensitization. Even though they have been used routinely for millions of patients, neither is completely effective. W. Müller fittingly sums up the current situation of allergology as follows: “The therapeutic dilemma in allergology can be clearly seen in the opposing therapy modalities of the avoidance of allergens and hyposensitization. Both act under the same premise, to induce immunological tolerance to the particular allergen. We still do not know which one of the two therapies might be the more successful” (Muller 1987).
Against this globally frustrating background, the assertion that there is an incredibly easy way to heal allergies using exclusively physical means, as previously defined, sounds like malevolent provocation. Could it be possible that the impressive knowledge clinical allergology has amassed is worth nothing? Can many thousands of serious researchers be mistaken?
In this, as in many similar situations, a response to these questions is futile as it would be based on “either/or” rather than “as well as.”
The “either/or” thinking between allopathic medicine and the so-called alternative methodologies is one of the big, seemingly ineradicable misunderstandings.
We do not need physicians to discard their allopathic knowledge. This knowledge has contributed to a doubling of the average life expectancy, victory over numerous diseases, epidemics, and other threats to mankind.
We need physicians who are willing to supplement their knowledge. They have to be open-minded in order to enter new dimensions, even if these are initially surprising and hard to understand.
In the following chapters we attempt to explain what we mean by “a new biophysical aspect of allergy.” We also want to present resultant, impressive, and to date unexploited practical opportunities.
3 Allergy from a Physics Point of View
One of the most important, yet difficult to understand discoveries of the Quantum Revolution is the law of wave-particle duality. It is
the concept that each substance consists of matter as well as particles.
Matter is directly available to us via our senses. It is measurable, tangible, and familiar to us. The intangible aspect, characterized by physical oscillations, cannot be recognized by our senses or, to date, any measuring device that we know of. This important—and, for the operation of our cosmos, indispensable—aspect is often overlooked and/or its existence questioned or negated.
The introductory chapters already briefly mentioned the significance this information carries for our world view, particularly for modern medicine. Using certain techniques, it is indeed possible to make this intangible portion visible. It can be used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Here, too, the rule applies:
We do not need to understand each phenomenon of our world in detail in order to use it!
To understand the many techniques of so-called holistic medicine—in this particular instance, the bioresonance methodology—the intentional simplification of the idea of ubiquitous physics “codification” has proven to be a useful practical base of information to work from.
For us ubiquitous physics codification signifies the fact that besides having a chemical-material aspect, each substance and animate or inanimate system, from subatomic particles to the greatest cosmic galaxies, also possesses an independent informational aspect intimately linked with the former.
From a physics point of view each atom, molecule, cell, organ, organism, etc. is a system based on physics with particular properties and very specific frequency information. The latter is very obviously a spectrum of ultra-weak electromagnetic frequency information. It is composed of the frequency spectra of each individual part of the system, including the last subatomic particle.
Biophysicist R. Sheldrake is convinced that these are essentially physical field phenomena and speaks of a “hierarchy of physical fields” that integrate into one universal field (Sheldrake 1990). One of the leading experts in energetic medicine, R. O. Becker, appropriately characterizes the situation as “fields within fields within fields” (Becker 1990).
Irrespective of the experts' debate on the physics definition, it appears entirely justified to call this system-specific information a “biophysical codification.” After all, it is unique, highly complicated frequency information applicable only to one particular system. Meanwhile, there are methods that make it possible to identify any system (any arbitrary substance, living being, etc.) by means of exactly this codification.
Let us remember:
Besides having a chemical-material aspect, each physical system in our cosmos also possesses a physics codification, very specific to its system. This codification appears as a spectrum of ultra-weak electromagnetic frequency information.
Knowledge and acceptance of this thought modality is the most important prerequisite to comprehend any further elaborations on this subject throughout this book.